Each May, Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month is held to raise community awareness around the social and personal impacts of domestic and family violence, and the support available to those affected.

At Speaking Out we are lucky to work with a range of inspirational women who advocate tirelessly for the cause of domestic violence awareness and prevention. See our top recommendations below.

Rosie Batty is a leader in the crusade against domestic violence. Rosie established The Luke Batty Foundation and the Never Alone Campaign, and is leading a Victim Survivors’ Advisory Council for the Victorian Government as a response to the country’s first Royal Commission into Family Violence.

Clementine Ford is a Melbourne based writer, speaker and feminist thinker. She uses humour and distilled fury to lay bare ongoing issues affecting women, and her work has radically challenged the issues of men’s violence against women, rape culture and gender warfare in Australia.

Ruth Clareis a Melbourne-based author and speaker. Her memoir Enemy: A Daughter’s Story of How Her Father Brought the Vietnam War Home is about growing up with a violent father and an alcoholic mother, and the way Ruth faced these trials with courage and strength.

We love women who speak out!

We are thrilled to welcome these fearless new faces to Speaking Out:

Rabia Siddique

Rabia is an Australian criminal and human rights lawyer, retired British Army officer, former terrorism and war crimes prosecutor, international humanitarian, hostage survivor, professional speaker and published author.

Rabia is committed to peace, gender equality, inclusion and education.

She is currently host, co-executive producer and co-writer of Cyberhate with Tara Moss on the ABC, examining the phenomenon of online abuse.

Mariam Veiszadeh

Mariam Veiszadeh is a lawyer, diversity & inclusion practitioner, advocate and a social commentator, and in 2016 was named the Fairfax Daily Life Woman of the Year.

A proud woman of refugee background, Mariam is passionate about championing the rights of minority groups in an endeavour to normalise ‘difference’ or rather, normality.

Jane Gleeson-White

Dr Jane Gleeson-White is an internationally acclaimed writer and speaker with degrees in literature, economics and creative writing.

Her work explores the intersection between economics and sustainability.

We can't get enough of Speaking Out recent addition: Sami Shah

Hot off the back of his fantastic show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Writer and Broadcaster, Sami Shah is as outspoken as they come. Sami has been profiled in the New York Times
and ABC’s Australian Story, and appeared on BBC Radio 4, QI with Stephen Fry, BBC Asian Network, TEDx, The Project, and the Soho Theatre. With an ability to go from hilarious to serious in the blink of an eye, Sami is definitely one to watch in the coming months.

Catch Sami's critiques of pretty much everything on his weekly podcast, Sami Says.